{"id":3343,"date":"2009-02-06T23:58:33","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T15:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=3343"},"modified":"2009-02-06T23:58:33","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T15:58:33","slug":"deja-vu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2009\/02\/06\/deja-vu\/","title":{"rendered":"Deja Vu?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Friday\/National\/2472264\/Article\/index_html\" target=\"_blank\">Read this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: justify;\"><p>The principal of a secondary school here is in  trouble for an alleged  religious slur against his students.   <!--start pix2 & pix3--><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"3\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"200\" align=\"right\"><\/table>\n<p>More than 20 parents of the school&#8217;s students gathered outside the district education office here to demand an apology yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>They claimed the principal had used the derogatory words thrice during an assembly on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>One of the parents, Y. Baskaran, said the principal should set a good example by fostering unity among  students.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The principal&#8217;s action is an insult to the community. She should have refrained from using such words. I hope no one in responsible positions like her uses the words in future,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- start video--> <!-- end video-->Several parents had also lodged a police report the day after the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Baskaran said narrow-minded civil servants such as the principal were obstructing the government&#8217;s efforts to promote racial harmony in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Baskaran, who represented the parents, handed  a memorandum to district education officer Abu Bakar Md Ali.<\/p>\n<p>Social worker S. Neelamegam, who was present at the gathering, said disciplinary action should be meted out to the principal to serve as a lesson to other civil servants.<\/p>\n<p>Abu Bakar said he would refer the matter to the state Education Department.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--end pix2 & pix3--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And then, <a href=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/08\/06\/murugiah-says-teacher-to-be-transferred-but-parents-unhappy\/\" target=\"_blank\">this incident in Kuala Langat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Don&#8217;t be surprised if the HM gets promoted and transfered to a Cluster school! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read this: The principal of a secondary school here is in trouble for an alleged religious slur against his students. More than 20 parents of the school&#8217;s students gathered outside the district education office here to demand an apology yesterday. They claimed the principal had used the derogatory words thrice during an assembly on Sunday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[117,112,19,113],"class_list":["post-3343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","category-indian","tag-crime","tag-discrimination","tag-education","tag-intolerance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3345,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions\/3345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}